Improvement in apparatus for marking cloth



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A. THOMAS.

APPARATUS FOR MARKING CLOTH.

No, 109.686. Patented Nov! 29, 1870.

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A. THOMAS. APPARATUS FOR MARKING CLOTH. No. 109.686.

Patented Nov. 29, 1870.

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ALFRED rnoMAs, or HoBoKn'Nj. NEW-JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 109,686, dated November a, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT in APPARATusFoR MARKING CLOTH- .rne schedule referred to in these Letters Patent: and making part at thesame.

table, is hooked, and held while marked, and in hav-- ing, in comhinationwith said table, a clamp, secured to its side, for securing and permanently holding the "pattern-sheet-,,from which'the cloth is marked, on

one ,of its ends, while its opposite end is attached to'a roller; so that, by these means the cloth to be marked is ready placed and secured upon the table to lay in a natural state, without requiring it to he forcibly stretched, and that by meansof the said roller and clamp the pattern-sheet is with facility and in, a. rapid manner, properly laid upon the clot-h, and sufficiently secured and held to the cloth while the marking is done, and by these means an apparatus for marking is obtuiued,-whieh is of small expense and great utility. In the drawing--, t Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of my apparatus.

Figure 2, a cross-section of the same.

Figure 3, a top view of a portion of the same on a x somewhat larger scale than in the other views, and showing the pattern-sheet spread across thecloth.

A represents the markingdal ilq'which hdstheusual legs to support it properly, and its left end is extended to support and give hearings to the rollers B and O,

as shown.

Upon the roller 0 is wound or stocked the cloth to be marked, and upon the roller B the cloth which is laid under the former, and drawn and cut out with it;

On the side of the table opposite to the operator,

Ihave a clamp,-H, consisting of the two barsjg and b, of which theflpart bis grooved, and is secured to the side of the table, aud the part a of the same has a tongue to meet the groove of the part b, so that the pattern-sheet E can be secured in the junction of said liars by pressing the bars together and clamping the said sheet between.

Now,.in order tolay this pattern-sheet up'on"the cloth in aready manner, and tolayio smoothly upon the s'ame,"I employ a roller, F, and secure the end of saidsheet 'on its periphery, while its other or opposite endhas'heen securedvin the clamp H, as stated.

By passing the roller from or toward the said clamp the said pattern-sheet is wound or unwound from the roller F.

. In order to ready secure the cloth upon the table when requiredto be marked, I employ small pins, G 6-; in the face of the table, as shown.

The patteru s'heet' E is sufiicicntly large, anl contains all required patterns, or drawings, and marks, in stenciled lines, to mark at once a whole suit of garments, as showm By means of application of the above-described appalatus the marking is done very accurately and rapidly, and. it will heevideut that such apparatus can be obtained for small expense.

I \Vhat I- claim, and-desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1-. The combination of the tables, with the pins G G, the rollers G and B, the-clamp I I, the patas and for the purpose set forth. 4

2. The roller 1 when combined with the patternsheet E, and operated upon the material, substantial] y as and for the purpose herein described. V

Witnesses: ALFRED THOMAS;

It. BOEKLEN, HENRY Tonsrmox.

tern-sheet E, and rollcr'F, when operated substantially 

